Problems with joining Groups

[trisonic]

I have now heard of two people who I sent invites to who have been unable to join because clicking on "JOIN" in the invite does nothing.......

I look up my invite list and they are listed as "Pending".

 

The two are: Mike Boucher and Gil Janus (see his post in "Forum Help" under: "Unread Notification bug" sic) whilst Gil's looks more complex I think it is the same problem. I've pm'ed Andy.

As I have a lot of people listed under Pending some of them may have simply not complained yet

 

Best, Pete.

[trisonic]

The strange thing about Mike Boucher is that he is listed as Pending in my Invite list but he has also posted already in the USA & Canada Railroad Group! It's a D'oh moment.....

 

Best, Pete.

[Kris]

Has this only happened with people that you have invited Pete?

 

As to the posting - Anyone can post in the groups whether they are a member or not, unless you have changed non member privileges. (It did start off that you had to be a member before you could post but Andy changed the privileges for all groups).

[trisonic]

It did occur to me that maybe I had sent out too many invites...........well, it was either do that or mow the lawn............

 

Best, Pete.

[Andy Y]

If they show as pending it does mean the invite sent at least. Mike's issue may be similar to that also mentioned by Gil Janus (it occasionally happens and only seems to clear after the next message comes in).

 

Most of the issue still surrounds the issue with the Join button for IE users.

[martin_wynne]

Most of the issue still surrounds the issue with the Join button for IE users.

Hi Andy,

 

Here's a short-term kludge fix if you want to use it:

 

Find this bit in the template in blue and insert after it the bit in red:

 

<a title="Join Group"><img alt="Join Group" src="http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/public/style_images/master/page_white_add.png"> Join Group</a><a title="click this to join if you are using Internet Explorer" onclick="getElementById('hiddenContent').style.display='block';">  Join Group Using IE</a>

This is what it looks like:

 

 

It works -- I just used it to join Pete's USA group.

 

regards,

 

Martin.

[Andy Y]

I'm feeling like a bit of a muppet now Martin, 15 minutes of searching the templates and the files and I still can't locate it.

[martin_wynne]

I'm feeling like a bit of a muppet now Martin, 15 minutes of searching the templates and the files and I still can't locate it.

Sorry I can't help as I don't have the software. It probably doesn't look exactly like that in the template. You should be able to find it by searching all files for the string "Join Group".

 

If you don't have it, the program Notepad++ (free) is a brilliant text and script editor and can search all files in a folder: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

 

regards,

 

Martin.

[Andy Y]

Thanks Martin,

 

Sure enough Notepad++ found it in a file \admin\applications_addon\other\groups\modules_public\view\view.php

 

I tried dropping it straight into the line:

 

				$join['button'] = '<li><a title="Join Group" href="'.$this->settings['base_url'].'app=groups&module=view&gid='.$this->group['g_id'].'&do=join&inv_key=' . $this->request['inv_key'] .'&s=' . $this->memberData['publicSessionID'] . '" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Join Group" src="'.$this->settings['img_url'].'/page_white_add.png"> Join Group</a><a title="Click this to join if you are using Internet Explorer" onclick="getElementById('hiddenContent').style.display='block';">  Join Group Using IE</a></li>';

 

This generated an error when accessing the front page of the Group containing that:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/rmwebco/public_html/community/admin/applications_addon/other/groups/modules_public/view/view.php on line 159

 

 

which corresponds to the relevant line in the file.

 

I guess it needs to be formatted into the php script in a similar manner to the 'Join Group' button.

[martin_wynne]

I guess it needs to be formatted into the php script in a similar manner to the 'Join Group' button.

Hi Andy,

 

I think you found the wrong place -- that is the hidden block which comes up when you click the button. Try searching for a later instance of "Join Group", or try searching for instances of "showHiddenContent" .

 

IPB is an absolute pig to find stuff in and make changes to because the templates and page .php files are merged together. I've ditched my copy of IPB, it was just too much brain pain. The UltraBB code from Jim Hale which I use for Templot Club and Bob Heath uses on YMR is an absolute pleasure to work with in comparison.

 

regards,

 

Martin.

[Andy Y]

I'd tried it in that line too to give:

 

				$join['popupButton'] = '<li id="showHiddenContent"><a title="Join Group"><img alt="Join Group" src="'.$this->settings['img_url'].'/page_white_add.png"> Join Group</a><a title="click this to join if you are using Internet Explorer" onclick="getElementById('hiddenContent').style.display='block';">  Join Group Using IE</a></li>';

 

I still get the same syntax error unfortunately.

[martin_wynne]

I still get the same syntax error unfortunately.

Hi Andy,

 

Ah. You need to escape all the single quotes with a backslash -- try this:

 

<a title="click this to join if you are using Internet Explorer" onclick="getElementById(\'hiddenContent\').style.display=\'block\';">  Join Group Using IE</a>

 

Martin.

[Andy Y]

Fantastic, it displays now!

 

Thanks ever so much for that.

[martin_wynne]

Fantastic, it displays now!

 

Thanks ever so much for that.

You're welcome Andy.

 

But IE is still being a pig. In IE7 at least, after clicking the new kludge button the hidden panel appears full-width at the bottom of the page. You need to tell IE users to click the new kludge button, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the new "Join group" button which will have appeared down there. IE8 and 9 may be better behaved, but why anyone uses IE beats me.

 

Hopefully the app developer will have this fixed soon.

 

regards,

 

Martin.

[Andy Y]

It seems to behave as it should in IE9.

 

Whilst weaning folk off IE it would be nice if I could get everyone to use a minimum display width of 1280.

[Ian J.]

Whilst weaning folk off IE it would be nice if I could get everyone to use a minimum display width of 1280.

I don't think you've got much hope of that. There are still some users out there who use 800x600, many of them for accessibility purposes as it in effect keeps font sizes large.

[Andy Y]

Thankfully the 800 x 600 are few and far between in that respect (or it's near impossible to use the site!). I'm sure a number of the 1024 could be persuaded though even if it's the most numerous and probably problematical).